Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 25: Seeking liberation of underemployed youth and PHE workers of the State in particular from exploitative enslavement, a large number of Panthers Party activists led by its chairman Harsh Dev Singh and other leaders staged a protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here today.
The angry protesters raised slogans seeking time bound regularization of the PHE, DRWs, Casual workers as repeatedly assured by Govt besides release of all pending wages. The leaders accused the successive Governments and BJP led erstwhile coalition for treating the youth like ‘expendables’ and pushing them towards starvation and other miseries.
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Expressing solidarity with the aggrieved workers of PHE employees who shall sit on 24 hour strike today, Harsh Dev Singh said that all the previous Governments including the BJP-PDP combine played a cruel joke with the casual, need based and daily rated workers of PHE, I&FC, M&RE, PWD etc besides contractuals of MGNREGA, NHM and other low paid employees of various departments by denying them their genuine right of regularization.
He said that thousands of such workers had given prime time of their life in running the departments but the Govt had always been callous towards them and treated them like bonded labourers. “They have been pushed to face starvation. Several of them had become overaged and many had left the world with the unfulfilled desire of living with dignity and honour,” he added.
Harsh Dev further called upon the Governor to review the honorarium of the all daily wagers and ensure the monthly payment of their wages on time.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Tash Paul Kundal (ex-MLA), Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Partap Singh, Parshotam Parihar, Khajoor Singh, Capt Narotam Singh, Surinder Chouhan, Nirmal Kishore, Rampaul Sharma, Mohinder Singh, Rashpaul Singh, Udhayveer Singh, Vishab Singh, Rakesh Verma, Bikram Choudhary, Subash Charak, Jagdish Dogra, Jagdish Raj, Jugal Kumar and others.
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